CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: http://rss.slashdot.org/~r/Slashdot/slashdot/~3/79866711/article.pl ------ ------------------ |
MastaLlama Member Posts: 671 From: Houston, TX USA Registered: 08-10-2005 |
Can you imagine? the latest Unreal Tournament would almost run at 30 frame per second! Finally!!! |
Mene-Mene Member Posts: 1398 From: Fort Wayne, IN, USA Registered: 10-23-2006 |
Thats pretty cool. I have a Pentium 4 Hyperthreaded. I want a dual core, but I'm in doubt I'll get one soon. ------------------ |
CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: lawls ------------------ |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
I read about that this morning. It IS a bit useless though, due to the costs of cooling that sucker down. but if when the machines attack in the near future and you're stuck underground with a P4 computer and a whole bunch of liquid nitrogen then you could be all set to start up your resistence force |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
whoops, double posted. my bad [This message has been edited by jestermax (edited January 23, 2007).] |
InsanePoet Member Posts: 638 From: Vermont, USA Registered: 03-12-2003 |
nerds :-p ------------------ |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
tell that to the terminators that'll be trying to kill you in the future:P |
bennythebear Member Posts: 1225 From: kentucky,usa Registered: 12-13-2003 |
is that speed stable, could you actually play a game or do some massive calculations with it? ------------------ proverbs 25:7 www.gfa.org - Gospel for Asia www.persecution.com - Voice of the Martyrs |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
in theory it would do whatever you wanted to but it just takes a lot to keep it from bursting into flames |
spade89 Member Posts: 561 From: houston,tx Registered: 11-28-2006 |
According to moors law,by the year 2020processor speed should be over 20ghz. ------------------ |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
thank goodness for exponential evolution |
SSquared Member Posts: 654 From: Pacific Northwest Registered: 03-22-2005 |
Actually, I don't know what would be more interesting. The 8 GHz speed or the liquid nitrogen cooling system. Wow! Regarding Moore's Law, I thought I was reading Moore's Law is no longer true. The P4 reached its speed limitations and will not go as fast as Intel had expected. This was my understanding for a push to duo systems, as the 2 cores can maintain proper heat, while gaining processing power. Is this right? Or wrong? I have been reading lots of stuff regarding Core Duo and Core 2 Duo the last few months, and I thought I came across some article stating the above. |
samw3 Member Posts: 542 From: Toccoa, GA, USA Registered: 08-15-2006 |
Well, technically, Moore's Law deals with the number of transistors in the chip, not the Mega/Giga-hertz. So even Duo's are keeping up since there are more transistors for the two processors. HP, I believe has made the next technological step with nano wire interconnects. ------------------ [This message has been edited by samw3 (edited January 23, 2007).] |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
If you like dual cored goodness then just wait til intel releases their quad-core architecture later this year. |
Mene-Mene Member Posts: 1398 From: Fort Wayne, IN, USA Registered: 10-23-2006 |
They already did I believe. Its on their site anyway. ------------------ |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
oh yeah? i didn't know that (again, i'm out of the loop). Anyways, 4 cores + HT technology = a whole lot of processing power to check your email with |
SSquared Member Posts: 654 From: Pacific Northwest Registered: 03-22-2005 |
quote: Ummm...yeah. Ooops. Forget what I said, please. |
Mene-Mene Member Posts: 1398 From: Fort Wayne, IN, USA Registered: 10-23-2006 |
Its mainly aimed at gamers. Not email/internet-only'ers. ------------------ |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
actually its probably more aimed at servers and research machines, or possibly even CAD machines more than gamers. But my point was that everyone wants the latest and greatest and 99% of people don't even know how to use the thing to its full potential. |
kenman Member Posts: 518 From: Janesville WI Registered: 08-31-2006 |
in 2020 won't the standard Hard Drive be 500 TB? |
steve_ancell Member Posts: 37 From: Brighton, East Sussex, Southern England, United Kingdom. Registered: 09-16-2006 |
Dunno... But I wouldn't be supprised if computers will be designing and building themselves. ------------------ |
Ereon Member Posts: 1018 From: Ohio, United States Registered: 04-12-2005 |
Hmm.....a computer program that can design and build other computer programs to meet certain specifications.......sounds like a nice mini-project to me I might try that when I get better at C. ------------------ |
steveth45 Member Posts: 536 From: Eugene, OR, USA Registered: 08-10-2005 |
quote: Ha! Well, if you upgrade to Vista, it'll feel like you're checking your email on a single processor system. Leave it to Microsoft to negate Moore's law with OS bloat. Your $200 video card? Probably not Direct X 10 compatible. How do you like that? A high end, DX 10 & Vista-compatible gaming computer will cost about as much as the price of a 360, Wii, and PS3 combined. ------------------ |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
for 12 easy payments of $9,999.99.... plus tax |
CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: They can do the building.. but nothing like design. You need to think outside the box (no pun intended) to develop new technologies. Computers are programmed, slaves of logic, boring, and uncapable of comming up with good ideas. A computer could optimize a design, make it cheaper, and make it faster but not create an entirely new one. ------------------ |
samw3 Member Posts: 542 From: Toccoa, GA, USA Registered: 08-15-2006 |
Well said. ------------------ |
Valkyri Member Posts: 205 From: Registered: 08-13-2005 |
oO..... wow, the possibilities there are with just a little liquid Nitrogen ------------------ |
jestermax Member Posts: 1064 From: Ontario, Canada Registered: 06-21-2006 |
yeah, you can stop any and all incoming T-1000 Terminators |
dXter Member Posts: 59 From: Texas, the US of A Registered: 09-26-2006 |
quote: This would only happen in the WAY far future, but I think that if a computer had an "artificial brain" that could "learn" like people by storing and processing/referring to all kinds of information, it could design and even think for itself probably, but not as well as people. Again, this is the very far future, say about the year 10,000 :P ------------------ "Time is an excellent teacher, but eventually it kills all of its students." |
spade89 Member Posts: 561 From: houston,tx Registered: 11-28-2006 |
AI technology really isn't that far into the future it is just making an os that can redesign/reprogram itself. ------------------ |
CPUFreak91 Member Posts: 2337 From: Registered: 02-01-2005 |
quote: Hehe. You could be right!
quote: I believe you have to have a soul to be truly creative. I don't believe AI could invent anything that's never been thought of before. ------------------ |